Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Janet Needs Some Serious Excitement In Her Life!

Poor Janet!  It's enough to make a puppy dog weep.  Her life is so dull, it's not even funny.  We just don't know how she can stand it.

Puppy girls - oh, yeah!  We know how to live the good life.

Phil decided to go to Whistler to ski for the weekend, so we had a "staycation".  Talk about quiet and relaxing!  Janet made some stuff for Phil to take to Whistler and to Squamish as he was going there on Friday to have dinner with Mr. Baby.  Mr. Baby can now say "Ya Ya" and "Grandpa".
Ricotta stuffed pasta shells with ground beef and Italian sausage, chocolate chip cookies and blueberry muffins.
Noodles helped Janet with the cooking chores.
Smack dab in the area Janet is working in.


While he was gone, Janet took us twice a day to either Willows or Firemans Park.  Noodles has the exact same routine every time we go to Willows.
She heads over to the far wall and walks toward the sidewalk.
And a different  same routine at Firemans.  Soon Firemans Park will be nirvana!  Those little baseball "playing" tykes will be back and some of them don't have a snowballs chance in hell of catching the balls.  Nor do they care enough to look for them.
Rolling on the baseball diamond while I enjoy a good stick.
We got to frolic in the backyard after Janet cut the grass.  Super fun as we haven't been down there for several months.
See what a clever girl I am, holding the bone in my paws.  I'm also as fast as lightening.  Janet left the trash compactor open for about 2 seconds and BAM - I was Johnny On The Spot selecting a chicken wing bone.  Janet didn't think that was so clever and pried my mouth wide open to retrieve the pieces.  Then I got a big lecture about the dangers of bones - a lecture I'm not likely to recall should I have the good fortune of an open compactor again.


This was also not my brightest moment.  I was convinced it was a ball and nearly dislocated Janet's shoulder getting over there.
We enjoy our food so much that the bowls often end up far from the kitchen!
Phil....we want our cookies now!
Janet made yakisoba from some noodles she bought at Costco.







Monday, February 16, 2015

Janet Is Really Low On Blogging Topics

We have reached a new low that  even I, Pashyminders, would have thought impossible.
Ab-so-lute-ly.  Nothing.  Going.  On.  In.  Our.  Lives.   Ouch!

That's not entirely true - Karen called Janet to let her know their long time mutual friend Gill was coming for the weekend.  They met for lunch and had a ball.  Janet dropped by Karen's while Gill was there the next day and they all chatted for about an hour.  No photographs!  Come on, Janet!

Our big excitement this week is our new microwave!  Yes!  Janet is super happy.

Our old microwave (the new one is the exact same as the old one) worked fine, but the latch had ceased to close properly for several months.  The door had to be finessed shut in order to work.  Janet's prediction was that the microwave would fully break down on Christmas day.  Too bad there wasn't a lottery as Janet would have won big time.

On this one occasion only, Phil who lives to save any single item he has ever owned managed to go to the attic and pull out this jobby - no room in the kitchen so it's in the back porch.  It takes forever to warm up anything and you don't even want to know how long it takes to really poorly defrost meat.  However, it was better than not having a micro.

Good thing it was in the back porch as it's so old it may have been transmitting bad micros to puppy girls!
 New one...funny - it looks just like the old one except we don't have to slam the door shut.  Janet is really happy.
Jeremy did a super job of installing it.  The death of the previous model was expedited over the Christmas season with extra hands trying to finesse it shut.
Noodles is a really cheap date.  She just loves ice cubes.

Waiting, waiting, Phil.  Come on buddy!


Phil discovered a really cool program on the computer.  He made this super cute card for Janet for Valentines Day in about 10 minutes.  Janet has just purchased her last card at the drugstore!


Janet has a really exciting week upcoming, so perhaps she will have something interesting to blog about.  Thursday is Chinese New Years Lunch at her volunteer job and after that she is going to quilting.  She is also on a stay-cation as Phil is going skiing on Thursday.  Toss in channeling really deep into her inner nerves of steel to drive to LongArm Arlenes and it's going to be busy!



Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Phil Has A New Hobby

I'm sure most people know that Phil enjoys playing squash, reading non fiction books about English history and watching what Janet calls the incredibly stupid F1 races.  Seriously - how many times can you watch cars go around and around a track?

His newest hobby - turning running water on, leaving the room for an extended period of time to do something else only to go back to find out there is now a flood.  This would normally be called an accident, but when it happens at least three times in less than a year, one has to now consider this is an activity he enjoys.

Yesterdays flood started in the kitchen and then ran down into the basement.

Fortunately, Janet was at work so had little involvement in the clean up.
Maybe he just enjoys using the Wet Dry Vac!  It's all kind of warm and humid downstairs.  A tropical vacation one short stairwell away!
Look at this little cutie that now lives around the corner from us.  Ten weeks old and couldn't sit still for a nano second!
We got a little carried away at the park the other day and were so muddy that Phil felt the need to hose us off.  Rain water and water from puddles we choose to go in are very acceptable.  Bath water and hose water, not so much.
Unlike other years, this year did not turn out to be the annual Christmas cookbook exchange where everyone buys everyone else the same cookbook.  Janet purchased the new Whitewater cookbook for herself and as gifts but turned out she was the only one that did so.
Italian Wedding Soup.  The people said it was good.
At Phil's office, they had a bake sale for a realtor who goes to Honduras every year for humanitarian purposes.  Previously, he built a school and this year he wants to build a clinic.  Janet was pressed into service.
She made Phil help.  Janet has now decided that Phil whips out his "I'm helpless is this department" card in an effort to get out of helping in the kitchen.

It's kind of a small booty, but there was only 3 days to work on it and it was cutting into Janet's quilting!
This is bound to spell bad news for me, Pashyminders.  This is the bedroom wall where I lay at bedtime.  Janet just noticed how dirty it was and washed a strip down the centre for further proof.   Two things - how could she not notice and let it get so dirty and will I be trucked off to the Puppy Perm and Curl Palace?


Two bookends.  We reminded Janet of Noodles and Rockers sitting together and Rockers would rest his head on Noodles back.

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Janet And Phil Try A New Japanese Restaurant!

They discovered this new restaurant when they went to Pizzaria Prima Strada on Friday.  It's called "The Next" and is "modern Japanese cuisine".  They both agreed they enjoyed it, but weren't sure they would order all the same food on another visit.
This was the Dynamite Roll and it was really good.

Ahi Roll with roasted garlic.  It was good.
Now that Janet is feeling better, we have been going for some long walks.  Most often, Noodles doesn't want to come.  Janet is still worried about her.  She has slowed down so much and barely puts any weight on one of her back paws.

  Look at what we saw on Sunday!
This was over the golf course at about 5:15PM. 
Janet finished binding a quilt she was giving to her volunteer friend Catherine for her new granddaughter., Frieja.   She thinks it's pretty.  Catherine showed it to many staff members who were excited about how great the quilt was, so Janet was super chuffed!

Noodles now lives for the trash compactor to be left open so she can "grocery shop"!
That might be me on the dog bed beside the "treasures", but I swear it wasn't me that ripped it apart!  Honest!
She is so loveable, Janet says it's hard to be angry with her.
I am so into this quilting gig and can't resist helping whenever I can. Poor Janet doesn't have any large flat walls that don't have plate rails so has to rely on the floor to put her quilts down.  I just love this part of the quilting process!
New recipe for dinner - baked polenta with grilled veggies and mozzarella cheese.  Janet was trying to emulate the new appetizer at their Pizza joint.  She said it was pretty good!